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  • Doctors: Survivor of Mine Explosion Improving

    01/07/2006 10:25:14 PM PST · by La Enchiladita · 6 replies · 527+ views
    Fox News ^ | Jan. 7, 2006 | Associated Press
    PITTSBURGH — The critically injured sole survivor of the West Virginia coal mine explosion showed dramatic improvement Saturday and was stable enough that he was flown back to a hospital closer to his home, doctors said. Randal McCloy Jr. has been in a medically induced coma to allow his brain time to heal, but when the medication is eased, his eyes flicker and he bites down on his breathing tube, showing he is "awake underneath our coma," said Dr. Richard Shannon of Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh. "We think that he is clinically stable," Shannon said Saturday afternoon. "He is...
  • CORRECTED - Survivor of W. Virginia mine disaster in a coma

    01/05/2006 2:56:23 PM PST · by La Enchiladita · 16 replies · 794+ views
    Reuters ^ | January 5, 2006 | Jon Hurdle
    BUCKHANNON, W. Va., Jan 5 (Reuters) - The sole survivor of a mine disaster that killed 12 men lay in a coma on Thursday as residents of the tight-knit West Virginia community struggled to understand the latest tragedy in the history of this dangerous profession. But doctors feared that Randal McCloy, the only survivor among 13 miners trapped underground for 42 hours after an explosion on Monday morning at the Sago mine in Tallmansville, could suffer some brain damage as a result of his ordeal. Though mining disasters are nothing new, this one was made more poignant by the fact...